New source of clean, renewable energy found in ocean

[MF Perm tha Fineass]

Very interesting article. Seems like they're deploying a prototype in the Detroit river soon.

Ocean currents can power the world, say scientists - Telegraph

[Ruiner]

This is new? To who?

[Sonomaa]

wow, if this works, thats hella cool

[Maguspk]

This is new? To who?

New to me, sounds very promising, going to keep my eye open for this kind of stuff from now on.

[Penthesilea]

One of my favorite professors I've had taught Animal Morphology and a lot of his research was developing and altering technology to run off of animal models, propulsion, liquid flow, etc. I'll have to see if he's involved with it.

Frank Fish presented a paper “Hydrodynamics of dolphin propulsion” at the 2nd Symposium on Voith Schneider Technology held June 4-6 in Heidenheim, Germany. He was featured in The Philadelphia Inquirer article, “Sea of Possibilities” discussing his research and how he developed a new wind turbine drawn from inspiration from the humpback whale’s flippers. In July, he presented an invited talk co-authored with T. Williams, T. Wei, and Paul Legac, “Vortex mechanics associated with propulsion and control in whales and dolphins” in the symposium “Linking Mechanics and Energetics” at the annual meeting of the Society for Experimental Biology held in Marseille, France. Professor Fish co-authored the article entitled “Energetics of swimming by the ferret: Consequences of forelimb paddling” with R. Baudinette in Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A (2008) 150:126-143. He was quoted on the MSNBC website, Technology & Science, in an article on humpback whales.

and

Dr. Frank Fish, Biology, received a grant in the amount of $1.3 million from the Office of Naval Research Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative for the Biologically-Inspired Autonomous Sea Vehicle program for “Towards a Mission Configurable Stealth Underwater Batoid.” The study is a collaboration with Dr. Hilary Bart-Smith, University of Virginia; and Dr. Alexander Smits of Princeton University. Professor Fish was highlighted in the April 2008 issue of National Geographic for his work on the application of the geometry of the humpback whale flipper for wind turbine design in the article “Biomimetrics: design by nature.”

Had to have been my favorite professor and courses I've taken, but a lot of his research is with the physics, and I don't understand that stuff. Wish I did because it's pretty neat seeing how efficient animals have become.

[Beckwin]

...holy shit, this is a fucking amazing idea.

[Kiro]

An amazingly old idea. Congratulations general population on only taking this stuff seriously when there's an actual problem instead of taking interest before the problem gets bad enough to where you ACTUALLY FUCKING LISTEN.

[Tokitoki]

My cousins are working on this in Edinburgh or something. They are putting one in the ocean now and they want 10 more built. One of them is in charge of bringing down costs (he says he can get it down from 10 to 4mil without any significant consequence) and the other is in charge of something else.

My grandfather was talking about it too. There was a guy in the town he grew up in that came up with the same kind of idea over 30 years ago but nobody thought itd work. Now they're looking at his plans and adapting some of his ideas.

[Cow_k]

An amazingly old idea. Congratulations general population on only taking this stuff seriously when there's an actual problem instead of taking interest before the problem gets bad enough to where you ACTUALLY FUCKING LISTEN.

You do realize a lot of this comes from oil companies intentionally suppressing the progress of a lot of things like this, no? I realize that if we all marched on the white house years ago maybe we could have had some change, but there's still millions of people telling us the solution is to drill offshore first~

[Elvis]

You do realize a lot of this comes from oil companies intentionally suppressing the progress of a lot of things like this, no? I realize that if we all marched on the white house years ago maybe we could have had some change, but there's still millions of people telling us the solution is to drill offshore first~

^This.

It happens in all industries too. I remember hearing a story about a small-time pharmaceuticals company that invented a better tx for peanut allergy or something and the got 'blocked' by a bigger company because they wanted to sell their own inferior version.

Stuff like this happens all the time. I think there was a documentary on hybrid cars that also had some similarities to this.

[Kaylia]

Cool stuff. I hope it works as good as they are saying, because it sound promising.

[NotGreyheim]

Isn't this how Cloverfield started? 8)

[Melchiah]

You do realize a lot of this comes from oil companies intentionally suppressing the progress of a lot of things like this, no? I realize that if we all marched on the white house years ago maybe we could have had some change, but there's still millions of people telling us the solution is to drill offshore first~

Big Oil is only going to stonewall this kind of thing until they can sort out how they are going to put their brand name on it and patent it, then they'll be jamming legislation through to ban petroleum energy sources.

[Blarg]

We should use this energy to power windmills so they go faster and give off more energy for us to use.

[Zhais]

We should use this energy to power windmills so they go faster and give off more energy for us to use.

We should use the energy windmills gather to power them even further, thus creating an infinite chain of events that leads to limitless power supply.


From one windmill.



My thought process is immaculate.

[Plow]

Do you realize how freaking huge and expensive this shit is though?


Like... 20 miles by 20 miles of this shit, stacked up like 25 feet tall...


Might power New York... doubt it though.

[Kaylia]

Do you realize how freaking huge and expensive this shit is though?


Like... 20 miles by 20 miles of this shit, stacked up like 25 feet tall...


Might power New York... doubt it though.

Bet they are made of plastic or rubber. That must be the catch.

[Charla]

We should use the energy windmills gather to power them even further, thus creating an infinite chain of events that leads to limitless power supply.


From one windmill.



My thought process is immaculate.

Here's where I post this, right?

[Zhais]

Here's where I post this, right?

lies fabricated by the media and Big Oil

[Charla]

And a Futurama character.